Exterior school in the hills :)

[Dave Buchhofer]

Its been years since i posted any work, so heres the latest jobbie.. unfortunately its a pretty quick turnaround, involving an architects sketchup model of dubious quality, but overall i like it. Still need to get rid of his sketchup cars and a few random design pickups. looking for overall comments and heavy crits

 

Stuck with the view choice too, its not horrible, but makes it hard to show any of the building details.. "Lets do an Aerial view, but we don't want to see the roof." meep.

[Claudio Branch]

 

looking for overall comments and heavy crits

 

 

First off I like your image...very nice composition. I really like the haziness of the skyline on the horizon. Good placement of entourage on the track and field.

 

As for heavy crits:

 

Trees - foreground trees appear to be floating (poor shadow quality) and all of them in general look too similiar. Need variety in hue at the very least. Use 3D trees in foreground if at all possible. Go check out Forest Pack Pro 3!

 

Grass - mapping looks a bit stretched to me in places and the shades of green are a bit dreary. Making the grass a bit darker would also improve the contrast between your terrain and structure.

 

Lighting - your lighting is making your image look quite flat to me, especially the building. This maybe due to your material settings or your exposure control or both.

 

Overall, a great job though.

[odouble]

I think this is a good image. The only thing is that it lacks contrast right now and i think that can be fixed right away by by adding an occlusion pass to the render. It should pop things out some more.

[gfa2]

I like it Dave.

 

The sun is behind the camera, if you bring it around one side or the other, more perpendicular to the camera maybe you'd get a little more pop/contrast. My eye was also drawn to the horizon over the hill. Seems like we'd see ground back there past the hill, unless your on the top of a mountain or something.

[Dave Buchhofer]

Thanks guys.

 

Lighting setup is stupidly simple now (Direct light + VrayDomelight), but with this almost straight on angle i'm not too sure how to adjust to really help with the direct shadows. I see what you're saying about the flatness, i'll give a go with the AO pass when i go for the animation part.

 

truthfully it looks downright dark and contrasty on this monitor at home, but I'm sure thats not the norm it prints out with fairly good depth though.

 

the background over left falls off pretty steeply down to a river, i agree that i think we'd see some far background, but the architects veto'd that after i showed it to them.

[Mike.]

great !

i would strenghten the sun a bit though, to give a more sunny mood.

 

nice render overall. it's evry difficult to make aerial views like this.